| Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence, and the Making of Contemporary Colombia Volume 3 Contributor(s): Karl, Robert A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520293924 ISBN-13: 9780520293922 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - South America - Social Science | Violence In Society - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 303.609 |
| LCCN: 2016046167 |
| Series: Violence in Latin American History |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" (1.40 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Forgotten Peace examines Colombian society's attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere's worst mid-century conflict and shows how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past. Robert A. Karl reconstructs encounters between government officials, rural peoples, provincial elites, and urban intellectuals during a crucial conjuncture that saw reformist optimism transform into alienation. In addition to offering a sweeping reinterpretation of Colombian history--including the most detailed account of the origins of the FARC insurgency in any language--Karl provides a Colombian vantage on global processes of democratic transition, development, and memory formation in the 1950s and 1960s. Broad in scope, Forgotten Peace challenges contemporary theories of violence in Latin America. |